Execution of warrant nets two drug arrests

SAN ANGELO, Texas - A San Angelo man was arrested more than a month after police found methamphetamine at a residence on Christoval Road while executing a warrant for a different man.

Brandon Richardson, 28, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance from 200 to 400 grams, according to jail records. He also is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

According to an affidavit filed with Justice of the Peace Precinct 3 Fred Buck, Richardson was arrested in connection with a search warrant the San Angelo Police Department executed Oct. 30.

Officers with SAPD's Narcotics Investigation division went to a residence in the 5500 block of Christoval Road, south of San Angelo, to arrest Humberto Morales Jr., 31.

"Upon entry into the residence Humberto Morales was located in the west bedroom of the trailer," the affidavit states. Morales was arrested that day.

Richardson was not at the residence at the time. A woman and her 2-month-old daughter were in the east bedroom of the trailer, the affidavit states, where they also found a methamphetamine pipe and methamphetamine in a container on the night stand.

Officers also said they found a safe in the closet that contained storage bags, a new methamphetamine pipe and a smaller safe. Inside the second safe were a digital scale with residue on it, more storage bags and a spiral notebook with a "drug ledger," according to the affidavit.

Officers determined that the notebook is a drug ledger, and the items in the safe are typically used for illegal narcotics distribution, the affidavit states.

"In the middle bedroom of the trailer was a black computer bag," it states. "Inside the bag there was a white sock, and inside the sock was a larger Ziploc bag which contained several bags of a white/pink crystalline substance."

Officers tested the substance, which confirmed methamphetamine was present, according to the affidavit.

When officers interviewed the woman, she said that Richardson lives with her in the east bedroom and that she sees people she doesn't know coming to the trailer, they said.

"The investigation is able to show that Brandon Richardson knowingly possessed with intent to deliver a controlled substance, methamphetamine," the affidavit states.

Richardson was in the Tom Green County Jail on Thursday night in lieu of $105,000 bail.

Morales also was in the Tom Green County Jail on Thursday night on a charge of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance between 4 and 200 grams. Bail for the charge is set at $30,000.

Manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance between 4 and 200 grams is a first-degree felony, punishable by five to 99 years in prison and fines up to $10,000.

Manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance between 200 and 400 grams is punishable by 10 to 99 years in prison and fines up to $100,000.

Unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon is a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and fines up to $10,000.